Quincy late model driver Jason Frankel might have the opportunity accomplish something even more special than originally thought.

Frankel is the current points leader at Quincy Raceways, 34 Raceway in West Burlington, Iowa, and Lee County Speedway in Donnellson, Iowa. If he can hang on in the second half of the season and pull off this unusual hat trick, who will he join in this accomplishment?

Anyone?

My research is fairly complete back into the mid and late 1990s and I cannot find any driver in Illinois, Iowa or Missouri with three track titles in the same year during that time, but there remains a hole or two in those findings so I am not offering that with 100 percent confidence.

This is where any and all of you reading this can help, especially all of you oldtimers out there — Danny Rosencrans, are you listenin’? I need some help in research and development.

Anything any of you can add to the lists below — or farther back — will be greatly appreciated. Feel free to comment, email or call. I’d like to see how far back we can get by the end of the season. Even if Frankel is unable to pull off this impressive feat we will have some tools for future use.

FYI–I have all the past Quincy Raceways champions and most of those at Iowa and Illinois tracks back into the mid to late 1990s.

Thanks in advance for your help.TWO TRACK CHAMPIONSHIPS, SAME SEASONQuincy area drivers in bold face italics

There’s a new leader in the DDI. Hobby stock ace Aaron Brocksieck has unseated season-long No. 1 Michael Long, who skipped Sunday night to run for the big modified bucks over in Moberly, Mo.

Simply divide the number of points a driver has earned by the
maximum number available. This little statistical tool shows how much
specific drivers dominate their divisions, in addition to what they do in the raw
points standings.

Stock cars are not eligible to be listed since that series’ heat races do not award points.

Chris Wibbell rolls on. The Dallas City Ironman has been able to keep his car together and avoid the five-car pileups to run all 245 feature laps in the stock car division. No other driver in any of the four series has done better than miss eight laps.

1. Jake Wenig, stock cars, 0.096 of a second over John Oliver Jr., May 18.2. Keith Pratt, late models, 0.252 of a second over Justin Reed, May 4.3. Steve Steinkuhler, stock cars, 0.344 of a second over John Oliver Jr., June 1.4. John Oliver Jr., stock cars, 0.356 of a second over Jeff Mueller, June 29.5. Travis Booher, hobby stocks, 0.366 of a second over James Leffew, June 8.6. Dave Wietholder, stock cars, 0.387 of a second over Doug Huls, June 22.7. Aaron Brocksieck, hobby stocks, 0.405 of a second over James Leffew, April 27.8. Chris Wibbell, stock cars, 0.434 of a second over Doug Huls, April 20.9. Michael Long, modifieds, 0.452 of a second over Steve Arpin, May 4.10. Dustin Griffin, late models, 0.540 of a second over Jason Frankel, June 8.

Three championships in one season has been accomplished twice that I know of. Mark Burgtorf in 1998 and 1999 at Lee County and Quincy. Two LM and one Mod each year. Another post here mentioned “watch the red 7” for Quincy championship, I also believe he can win it.

Three championships in one season has been accomplished twice that I know of. Mark Burgtorf in 1998 and 1999 at Lee County and Quincy. Two LM and one Mod each year. Another post here mentioned “watch the red 7” for Quincy championship, I also believe he can win it.

Awesome coverage on here! No other track in the midwest can be able to boast of this much info each week. I wish you added the stock cars into the driver dominance index, because I think Chris would be leading that too with .915. We never even planned to run for points weekly at QR, with him getting married in the middle of race season, but glad we did!

Awesome coverage on here! No other track in the midwest can be able to boast of this much info each week. I wish you added the stock cars into the driver dominance index, because I think Chris would be leading that too with .915. We never even planned to run for points weekly at QR, with him getting married in the middle of race season, but glad we did!

Good point about Mark’s modified title(s), but I was referring to late model championships only. Guess I should have been more clear on that point! Thanks for the reminder about the old 69M, though. I wish we could see him in that again. I used to love Friday nights in Donnellson when Mark would race both the late model and the modified every week.

Good point about Mark’s modified title(s), but I was referring to late model championships only. Guess I should have been more clear on that point! Thanks for the reminder about the old 69M, though. I wish we could see him in that again. I used to love Friday nights in Donnellson when Mark would race both the late model and the modified every week.

Thanks for the nice words, and probably next year we’ll add stock cars to the regional rankings. A lot of this year has been a trial run and the response has been so good we want to try and continue to make this blog the best it can be. Any and all suggestions are welcome!

Thanks for the nice words, and probably next year we’ll add stock cars to the regional rankings. A lot of this year has been a trial run and the response has been so good we want to try and continue to make this blog the best it can be. Any and all suggestions are welcome!